read.dta_vc: Read Stata Files, using pkg foreign

In williamlief/DataVersionControl: Automates version control tracking for data files

Description

This is a wrapper function for 'foreign::read.dta', use is identical to the original function.

Usage

read.dta_vc(file, ..., version_control = "DATA_VC", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

file	a filename or URL as a character string.
...	other params for read.dta see read.dta
version_control	name of data version control file. Default is 'data_vc'. Should match name used in 'make_data_vc'.
verbose	logical, report returned current file version? Default is FALSE

Details

Internally it checks the data version control file and returns the stamp associated with the current version of the desired 'file'.

Value

A data frame with attributes.

See Also

read.dta

Examples

make_data_vc()
foreign::write.dta_vc(cars, "my_cars.dta", verbose = TRUE)
foreign::read.dta_vc("my_cars.dta", verbose = TRUE)

williamlief/DataVersionControl documentation built on Jan. 6, 2020, 8:20 a.m.